Sango Subtitles & Captions

Knockhundred offers a high-quality Sango subtitling service to a variety of clients across a wide range of business sectors. In fact, we offer professional subtitling services in over 190 languages, including Sango, for cinema, TV, online material, DVD, video, video games, computer games and corporate CD-ROMS.

We can provide captions and Sango captioning services (including closed captions) for those people who are deaf or hard of hearing. These captions will usually contain descriptions of non-dialogue audio (such as laughter or a door slamming).

We also of course provide English subtitling services to a huge range of clients across the globe. Please refer to our languages page to see which languages we can handle.

The art of Sango subtitling

Using subtitling software, we can provide subtitles in virtually any language including Sango, and produce the end result in most industry-standard formats such as plain text, Word, HTML, Final Cut Pro XML, Spruce STL or Subrip (srt).

If you don't see the format you need, just ask, as we may still be able to help. The Sango subtitlers will identify exact positions where each subtitle should appear and disappear. These markers are usually identified by precise time codes/frames dependent on the service you require.

The process of Sango captioning

The process of captioning is much the same as for producing Sango subtitles. The main difference is that the resulting Sango captions will often contain descriptions of sound as well as a direct transcription of the speech.

Sango transcription and translation for film and tv

We regularly translate film and documentary clips providing a finished transcription with time codes ready for Sango subtitles to be created. We are more than happy to produce finished srt subtitle files if you'd prefer.

One-step media translation from video for Sango subtitles

If your source video is in one language, for example English, and you require the subtitles to be in another, for example Sango, our Sango linguists will provide a direct translation into the relevant language and produce time-coded subtitles in a suitable format.

Sango video SEO

Do you have an existing video in Sango, or are you having one produced?  If you want consumers to find your video, please remember search engines can’t watch a video or listen to audio, but they do “understand” (and index) text.  This is why it is important to upload an aligned, accurate Sango transcript to support your video content or to provide Sango subtitles or captions.  This is how search engines will “hear” your video.

Rates
  • Sango subtitling rates start from £10.99 + VAT per source video minute
  • Sango same language transcription rates start from £3.99 per source audio/video minute
  • Sango language direct translation from audio/video rates start from £7.99 per source audio/video minute
  • Please note these rates are a broad indication only. Minimum charges apply, and rates will vary depending on audio quality, number of speakers, subject matter, volume, etc.

Please note: VAT is chargeable for our UK clients. We are able to provide quotations in GB pounds, US Dollars or Euros.

Please refer to our Client Feedback page to learn more about the unbeatable Sango transcription service we offer.

WHILE YOU’RE HERE... SOME QUITE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE Sango LANGUAGE

Sango (also spelled Sangho) is a creole language in the Central African Republic and the primary language spoken in the country. It is an official language of the Central African Republic, making the Central African Republic one of the few African countries with an indigenous language as an official language. It is used as a lingua franca across the country and had 450,000 native speakers in 1988. It also has 1.6 million second language speakers. The creole is based on the Northern Ngbandi language. It was used as a trade language along the Ubangi River prior to French colonisation in the 1880s. In colloquial speech 90% of the language's vocabulary is Sango, whereas in more technical speech French loanwords constitute the majority.

Sango SAMPLE TEXT

Adü âzo kûê yamba, ngâ âla lîngbi terê na lêgë tî nëngö-terê na tî ângangü. Ala kûê awara ndarä na börö-li sï âla lîngbi tî dutï na âmbâ tî âla gï na lêngö söngö.

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Sango example video
AND LASTLY, A Sango proverb

Béafrica, Kodro ti zo kwé zo.